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Old 05-14-2009, 12:22 PM   #35 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ac7ss View Post
It was that type of thing that gave me the idea. I read somewhere about trailing fairings (on the trailing edge) make more difference than leading fairing. So maybe just an oversized shirt stretched over the trunk?
The rounded and streamlined front of the body is only half the battle. Maybe less than half the battle: A properly streamlined pressure recovery at the rear is as important, or perhaps more important, than the front. See Hoerner's "Fluid Dynamic Drag" book available via inter-library loan.
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